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2 May from 12.30-17.00 and 3 May from 8.45-10.00
Rising Asia, Anxious Europe
The conference "Rising Asia, Anxious Europe" 2-3 May was recorded and is now available as a video podcast. Watch the grand opening with speeches by Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal, Prorector Thomas Bjørnholm, and keynote presentations by:
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck
- Isabel Hilton
- Prof. Dr. Peter van der Veer
- Prof. Wang Gungwu
- Prof. Aihwa Ong (note: poor sound quality for the first 3-4 minutes)
Programme
2 May 2012
The Ceremonial Hall, University of Copenhagen, Frue Plads, Copenhagen
Registration from 11.30
Moderator: Marie H. Roesgaard, Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, and Chair of the ADI Steering Committee
12:30-12:50 |
Opening Speech by the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal |
12:50-13:00 |
Speech by Prorector Thomas Bjørnholm |
13:00-13:50 |
Prof. Ulrich Beck, Department of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and London School of Economics |
13:50-14:40 |
Isabel Hilton, London-based international journalist and broadcaster, Editor of chinadialogue.net |
14:40-15.10 |
Tea and Coffee |
15:10-16:00 |
Prof. Peter van der Veer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen |
16:00-16:50 |
Prof. Wang Gungwu, Chairman of the East Asian Institute and University Professor, National University of Singapore |
16:50-17:00 |
Concluding remarks |
17:00-18:30 | Reception |
3 May 2012
Faculty of Humanities (Building 22, 24 and 27), Njalsgade 120-136, 2300 Copenhagen S
Panel sessions
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-10:00 - Session 1 - Auditorium 22.0.11
Keynote presentation by Professor Aihwa Ong, Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
"Science as the Heart of “World-Class” Cities in Asia"
10:00-10:30 | Coffee and tea | |||
Session 2 | ||||
Room 27.0.09 | Room 27.0.49 | Room 27.1.49 | Room 24.1.45 | |
10:30-12:30 |
Panel 1A : Business, markets and enterprise in Asia-Europe encounters |
Panel 1B : Orientalism, Asian values and perspectives |
Panel 1C : Changing Security Dynamics |
Panel 1D : Urban identity and everyday life |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |||
Session 3 | ||||
Room 27.0.09 | Room 27.0.49 | Room 27.1.49 | Room 24.1.45 | |
13:30-15:30 |
Panel 2A : Global resource competition, international aid and global consequences |
Panel 2B : Anxieties and accounts |
Panel 2C : Trade and investment flows between Europe and Asia |
Panel 2D : Urban ecology, transformation and negotiations |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee and tea | |||
Session 4 | ||||
Room 27.0.09 | Room 27.0.49 | Room 24.1.45 | ||
16:00-18: 00 |
Panel 3A : Resource competition and consequences for food security and rural livelihoods |
Panel 3B : Languages and forms of Asia-Europe Comparison |
Panel 3D : Xindu case and Discussion of Urban Imaginaries and Power |
Detailed programme here
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